Software Developer D365 (up to 55,806)

These are exciting times at the Department for Education. In 2026 we'll continue to build more user-centred digital services for all our users, children, adults, and those in social care.

As a software developer, youll be part of a team responsible for developing and supporting scalable, secure, and high-quality user-centric digital services. You will assist senior team members in the design of the services. And you will work closely with colleagues within multidisciplinary agile teams, that focus on delivering work iteratively and at pace.

You will innovate to radically transform how public services are delivered and improved.

If you are successful, you will be working in the Solution Delivery Team. We work on central repeatable tools that will form the backbone of the Departments services going forward. We are building out a whole host of repeatable patterns and services in the D365 area which will be key to delivering future Department Tech Strategies. Its an exciting area to work in with an established team.

As a Software Developer, you will:

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment.
• Develop and extend solutions on the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to agreed standards, using Power Automate, JavaScript and C# .NET to extend solutions where appropriate.
• Build and maintain services using Power Pages, including Liquid templating in web templates and table permissions.
• Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment processes.
• Work to modern development standards, practices and techniques.
• Work with the development community to ensure we build sustainable digital products.
• Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high-quality digital services.
• Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as test-driven development, continuous integration & delivery.
• Provide support for services where software development involvement is required.
• Support sharing of methods and technologies across teams, government, and the industry by helping to organise events.
• Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable experience of software development using C# .NET along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience of developing or extending solutions on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and/or the Power Platform.
• Experience working with technical teams to deliver user-focused services in an agile environment.
• Experience of good practices such as Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, and DevOps as well as modern development workflows, ideally using GitHub.
• Experience of good software design concepts such as OOD, SOLID and design patterns.
• Experience of RESTful API design and loosely coupled architectures.
• Experience of web application security.